HB 1591 Oklahoma House · 2026 Regular Session

Crimes and punishments; adding specific crimes to list of offenses; effective date.

HB 1591 requires individuals convicted of 25 specific serious crimes in Oklahoma to serve at least 85% of their prison sentence before becoming eligible for parole. This applies to offenses like first-degree murder, child sex trafficking, domestic violence with weapons, human trafficking, and certain violent assaults. The bill prohibits earned credits or other sentence reductions that would allow offenders to serve less than 85% of their sentence. It becomes effective November 1, 2025, and directly affects those sentenced for the listed crimes under Oklahoma law.

Issues: ✗ Criminal Justice

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action May 5, 2025

Maddy AI version diff · 3 comparisons

What changed between versions

Floor (House) → Floor (Senate) · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended during Senate review to add several new serious offenses to the list of crimes requiring mandatory 85% prison sentence service. The Senate version also expanded the list of crimes to include child pornography, child sex trafficking, and abuse of vulnerable adults, while removing some original language about committee reports.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include additional serious offenses beyond the original list, making more crimes subject to the mandatory 85% sentence requirement.

SCOPE

Added child pornography, aggravated child pornography, child sex trafficking, and lewd molestation of a child to the list of offenses requiring mandatory 85% sentence service.

Added abuse of a vulnerable adult and aggravated trafficking to the list of offenses requiring mandatory 85% sentence service.

Added domestic abuse by strangulation and domestic assault with a deadly weapon to the list of offenses requiring mandatory 85% sentence service.

TECHNICAL

Changed the committee report attribution from 'Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight' to 'Committee on Judiciary' and updated the date to April 22, 2025.

Removed the original House version header and some formatting elements during the transition to Senate floor version.

Floor votes · House Mar 5, 2025

How they voted

92–0

Passed · 8 other

Total votes 100

Mar 5, 2025

D Democratic19

16 Yea 3

84% Yea

R Republican81

76 Yea 5

93% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

Engrossed, signed, to Senate

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Committee

Referred for engrossment

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0

lower

Mar 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee

lower

Feb 11, 2025

Lower · Passed

Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Criminal Judiciary

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to Criminal Judiciary

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors